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Image copyright AFP/Getty Voters are going to the polls in the Lewisham East by-election. The by-election was called last month to choose a new MP to replace Labour’s Heidi Alexander, who quit to work for London mayor Sadiq Khan. Labour won the seat at last year’s general election with 32,072 votes. The Conservatives were second […]

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